The Warren Commission was published in October, 1964. It reached
the following conclusions:

(1) The shots which killed President Kennedy and wounded
Governor Connally were fired from the sixth floor window at the
southeast corner of the Texas School Book Depository.

(2) The weight of the evidence indicates that there were three
shots fired.

(3) Although it is not necessary to any essential findings of
the Commission to determine just which shot hit Governor
Connally, there is very persuasive evidence from the experts to
indicate that the same bullet which pierced the President's
throat also caused Governor Connally's wounds. However, Governor
Connally's testimony and certain other factors have given rise
to some difference of opinion as to this probability but there
is no question in the mind of any member of the Commission that
all the shots which caused the President's and Governor
Connally's wounds were fired from the sixth floor window of the
Texas School Book Depository.

(4) The shots which killed President Kennedy and wounded
Governor Connally were fired by Lee Harvey Oswald.

(6) Within 80 minutes of the assassination and 35 minutes of the
Tippit killing Oswald resisted arrest at the theater by
attempting to shoot another Dallas police officer.

(7) The Commission has found no evidence that either Lee Harvey
Oswald or Jack Ruby was part of any conspiracy, domestic or
foreign, to assassinate President Kennedy.

(8) In its entire investigation the Commission has found no
evidence of conspiracy, subversion, or disloyalty to the U.S.
Government by any Federal, State, or local official.

(9) On the basis of the evidence before the Commission it
concludes that, Oswald acted alone.

(1) Peter Dale Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993)

At the first meeting of the newly constituted Warren Commission,
Allen Dulles handed out copies of a book to help define the
ideological parameters he proposed for the Commission's
forthcoming work. American assassinations were different from
European ones, he told the Commission. European assassinations
were the work of conspiracies, whereas American assassins acted
alone. Someone was alert enough to remind Dulles of the Lincoln
assassination, when Lincoln and two members of his cabinet were
shot simultaneously in different parts of Washington. But Dulles
was not stopped for a second: years of dissembling in the name
of "intelligence" were not to fail him in this challenge. He
simply retorted that the killers in the Lincoln case were so
completely under the control of one man (John Wilkes Booth),
that the three killings were virtually the work of one man.

Dulles's logic here (or, as I prefer to call it, his paralogy)
was not idiosyncratic, it was institutional. As we have seen, J.
Edgar Hoover had already, by November 25, committed his own
reputation and the Bureau to the conclusion that Oswald had done
it, and acted alone. Chief Justice Warren knew this, yet said at
the same meeting, "We can start with the premise that we can
rely upon the reports of the various agencies that have been
engaged in the investigation." John J. McCloy spoke for the
extra-governmental establishment when he added that it was of
paramount importance to "show the world that America is not a
banana republic, where a government can be changed by
conspiracy.

(2) The Warren Commission Report (September, 1964)

(1) The shots which killed President Kennedy and wounded
Governor Connally were fired from the sixth floor window at the
southeast corner of the Texas School Book Depository. This
determination is based upon the following:

Witnesses at the scene of the assassination saw a rifle being
fired from the sixth-floor window of the Depository Building,
and some witnesses saw a rifle in the window immediately after
the shots were fired.

The nearly whole bullet found on Governor Connally's stretcher
at Parkland Memorial Hospital and the two bullet fragments found
in the front seat of the Presidential limousine were fired from
the 6.5-millimeter Mannlicher-Carcano rifle found on the sixth
floor of the Depository Building to the exclusion of all other
weapons.

The three used cartridge cases found near the window on the
sixth floor at the southeast corner of the building were fired
from the same rifle which fired the above - described bullet and
fragments, to the exclusion of all other weapons.

The windshield in the Presidential limousine was struck by a
bullet fragment on the inside surface of the glass, but was not
penetrated.

The nature of the bullet wounds suffered by President Kennedy
and Governor Connally and the location of the car at the time of
the shots establish that the bullets were fired from above and
behind the Presidential limousine, striking the President and
the Governor as follows:

President Kennedy was first struck by a bullet which entered at
the back of his neck and exited through the lower front portion
of his neck, causing a wound which would not necessarily have
been lethal. The President was struck a second time by a bullet
which entered the right-rear portion of his head, causing a
massive and fatal wound.

Governor Connally was struck by a bullet which entered on the
right side of his back and traveled downward through the right
side of his chest, exiting below his right nipple. This bullet
then passed through his right wrist and entered his left thigh
where it caused a superficial wound.

There is no credible evidence that the shots were fired from the
Triple Underpass, ahead of the motorcade, or from any other
location.

(2) The weight of the evidence indicates that there were three
shots fired.

(3) Although it is not necessary to any essential findings of
the Commission to determine just which shot hit Governor
Connally, there is very persuasive evidence from the experts to
indicate that the same bullet which pierced the President's
throat also caused Governor Connally's wounds. However, Governor
Connally's testimony and certain other factors have given rise
to some difference of opinion as to this probability but there
is no question in the mind of any member of the Commission that
all the shots which caused the President's and Governor
Connally's wounds were fired from the sixth floor window of the
Texas School Book Depository.

(4) The shots which killed President Kennedy and wounded
Governor Connally were fired by Lee Harvey Oswald. This
conclusion is based upon the following:

The Mannlicher-Carcano 6.5 - millimeter Italian rifle from which
the shots were fired was owned by and in the possession of
Oswald.

Oswald carried this rifle into the Depository Building on the
morning of November 22, 1963.

Oswald, at the time of the assassination, was present at the
window from which the shots were fired.

Shortly after the assassination, the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle
belonging to Oswald was found partially hidden between some
cartons on the sixth floor and the improvised paper bag in which
Oswald brought the rifle to the Depository was found close by
the window from which the shots were fired.

Based on testimony of the experts and their analysis of films of
the assassination, the Commission has concluded that a rifleman
of Lee Harvey Oswald's capabilities could have fired the shots
from the rifle used in the assassination within the elapsed time
of the shooting. The Commission has concluded further that
Oswald possessed the capability with a rifle which enabled him
to commit the assassination.

Oswald lied to the police after his arrest concerning important
substantive matters.

Oswald had attempted to kill Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker
(Resigned, U.S. Army) on April 10, 1963, thereby demonstrating
his disposition to take human life.

(5) Oswald killed Dallas Police Patrolman J. D. Tippit
approximately 45 minutes after the assassination. This
conclusion upholds the finding that Oswald fired the shots which
killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor Connally and is
supported by the following:

Two eyewitnesses saw the Tippit shooting and seven eyewitnesses
heard the shots and saw the gunman leave the scene with revolver
in hand. These nine eyewitnesses positively identified Lee
Harvey Oswald as the man they saw.
The cartridge cases found at the scene of the shooting were
fired from the revolver in the possession of Oswald at the time
of his arrest to the exclusion of all other weapons.

The revolver in Oswald's possession at the time of his arrest
was purchased by and belonged to Oswald.

Oswald's jacket was found along the path of flight taken by the
gunman as he fled from the scene of the killing.

(6) Within 80 minutes of the assassination and 35 minutes of the
Tippit killing Oswald resisted arrest at the theater by
attempting to shoot another Dallas police officer.

(7) The Commission has reached the following conclusions
concerning Oswald's interrogation and detention by the Dallas
police:

Except for the force required to effect his arrest, Oswald was
not subjected to any physical coercion by any law enforcement
officials. He was advised that he could not be compelled to give
any information and that any statements made by him might be
used against him in court. He was advised of his right to
counsel. He was given the opportunity to obtain counsel of his
own choice and was offered legal assistance by the Dallas Bar
Association, which he rejected at that time.

Newspaper, radio, and television reporters were allowed
uninhibited access to the area through which Oswald had to pass
when he was moved from his cell to the interrogation room and
other sections of the building, thereby subjecting Oswald to
harassment and creating chaotic conditions which were not
conducive to orderly interrogation or the protection of the
rights of the prisoner.

The numerous statements, sometimes erroneous, made to the press
by various local law enforcement officials, during this period
of confusion and disorder in the police station, would have
presented serious obstacles to the obtaining of a fair trial for
Oswald. To the extent that the information was erroneous or
misleading, it helped to create doubts, speculations, and fears
in the mind of the public which might otherwise not have arisen.

(8) The Commission has reached the following conclusions
concerning the killing of Oswald by Jack Ruby on November 24,
1963:

Although the evidence on Ruby's means of entry is not
conclusive, the weight of the evidence indicates that he walked
down the ramp leading from Main Street to the basement of the
police department.

There is no evidence to support the rumor that Ruby may have
been assisted by any members of the Dallas Police Department in
the killing of Oswald.

The Dallas Police Department's decision to transfer Oswald to
the county jail in full public view was unsound.
The arrangements made by the police department on Sunday
morning, only a few hours before the attempted transfer, were
inadequate. Of critical importance was the fact that news media
representatives and others were not excluded from the basement
even after the police were notified of threats to Oswald's life.
These deficiencies contributed to the death of Lee Harvey
Oswald.